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Practical performance of digital cellular system in mass rapid transit environments
Author(s) -
Zhang Y. P.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.693
Subject(s) - coaxial cable , gsm , coaxial , computer science , mode (computer interface) , telecommunications , communications system , focus (optics) , transit (satellite) , signal (programming language) , mobile telephony , system of measurement , electrical engineering , operating system , public transport , physics , engineering , mobile radio , astronomy , cable gland , transport engineering , optics , programming language
Leaky coaxial cables have found applications in the creation of network infrastructures for mobile and personal communication services in underground and enclosed spaces. A digital cellular system based on the GSM 900 standard and using radiated mode leaky coaxial cables has been implemented in an underground mass rapid transit environment. This paper presents the practical performance evaluation of the system. First, we start with a brief introduction of a radiated mode leaky coaxial cable and the digital cellular system GSM 900, and then we move into a full description of the measurement campaign; next we focus on an analysis of the measured performance data about received signal level, received signal quality, speech quality index and grade of service. The results show that the system performance is generally good; however, the poor system performance often occurs at the terminals of the leaky coaxial cable. In addition, it is found that the system performance is highly correlated with the density of train passenger. The higher train passenger density degrades the system performance. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.